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On Invasion Day, who jumps in before Paratroopers: the Pathfinders

June 6th, 1944, two minutes past midnight, a C-47 carrying 20 men entered enemy air space over France. It’s the beginning of D-Day. These men are part of the 101st Airborne Division but their …

The Nonprofit Turn

Community newspapers are public institutions. But relatively recently, they operated only on a for-profit model. Converting from for-profit newspapers into nonprofit organizations could be a path for …

Publisher Therapy: Attending newspaper conventions and meetings

Whew! It’s been a bit of a whirlwind in my life for the past month or so with so many conventions and conferences to attend. Don’t get me wrong. I love going to the Missouri Press …

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Members' views
All week long — National Newspaper Week — we have been examining the important role newspapers play in their communities and the many ways those communities become malnourished when their …
Kyle Troutman
Walter Cronkite once said, “Freedom of the press is not just important to democracy; it is democracy.” We are in the midst of National Newspaper Week, Oct. 5-11, which I see as the …
Darby Mostaffa
This summer, I was given the opportunity to further my journalism education through a 13-week internship with the Warrensburg Star-Journal . As a junior majoring in digital media production with a …

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Notebook
Mark Evans is editor of the Ste. Genevieve Herald. In addition to being a longtime community journalist, he writes various fiction in his free time and has authored seven novels so far.
Who owns the newspapers? In September, Better Newspapers, Inc., sold us and their other seven Missouri papers to Paxton Media Group (PMG). We are in the process of learning a whole new system, which …
Chad Stebbins and Kristie Fortier visited Justin Addison, publisher of the Fayette Advertiser in March, the first among several visits to see Missouri Press Association’s member’s offices. Subsequent visits included other Missouri Press staff members and even MPA President Peggy Scott.
When Chad Stebbins was announced as the next executive director of Missouri Press Association, one of his goals was to make personal visits to member newspapers around the state. Since …
The Missouri Press Association has received an Active Specialty Publication Membership application for Missouri Life magazine. Missouri Life is a non-partisan magazine with a statewide …

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Death notices
John M Wylie II, 72, of Oologah, Okla., formerly of Kansas City, died October 4, 2025, at his home on Lake Oologah. A decorated and accomplished journalist and publisher who grew up in Kansas …
Russell D. Pettijohn, of St. Joseph, died Friday, Sept. 26, 2025, at the age of 96. He proudly served his country in the Missouri Air National Guard and the U.S. Air Force, where he attained the …
Edward "Ed" M. Anderson, 69, died Jan. 28, 2025, at a Springfield area hospital. Anderson spent virtually his entire career in community newspapering, beginning his career as an advertising …

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For decades, students in the Missouri School of Journalism have received a firsthand look at weekly newspapering through the Community Journalism course. First offered by MPA Executive Director …
A few days after the closing of this year’s Missouri Press Associations’ highly-successful convention, this headline from Editor & Publisher magazine’s website caught my …
In a day and age when we see announcements of newspaper closures all too often (not very many in Missouri, though!), it’s refreshing to hear about papers being purchased because they are still …

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